Nobody lives in most of these valleys. And quite a lot of them dead end. Yes they have suspension bridges, but a lot of these ravines have no easy access to the bottom. It's difficult to explain unless you actually see it, but it makes sense for the lay of the land and where they are trying to get the cables to. In fact, in a lot of cases, people don't want to build in the valleys because of the floods, or because the towns are hot spring resorts, and they go where the water comes out, not in the valleys.
I've seen plenty of suspension bridges in Japan, but these are places where people are trying to get cables to go UP and OVER, which you don't generally do with a suspension bridge. What happens is they are switchbacking across the face of a steep incline, many times over a ravine that cuts through the middle of it. It's not so much a valley as a dead end, box-ravine at an incline.
As for a place being remote, I don't see your point. You can split hairs all you want, but it was about as remote as you can be and still be within 200km of Tokyo. It takes about 5 hours to get there, and it is packed into a ravine in the mountains that dead ends in a blank wall. Use whatever word you want to describe it, but it was remote as hell, and the steep mountains blocked out most of the sunlight. The point I was making is that to get wired service to these people would be extremely difficult and costly, as opposed to a satelite dish up on the top of the ravine, with a single cable down into the town's NTT exchange offering 10mbps. The best these people get is probably 56k. They might have ISDN (128k).
BTW, you are a flocinaucinihilipilificator.
Remote: difficult to get to. In this case the reason being the steep valley walls. Those same walls block out the sun.....hm.......think about it.
No, you don't understand, they have to zigzag over the ravine, each time gaining elevation to get it up the mountain. The mountains are STEEP, and sometimes it's the only way to get the cables up to the towns and villages on top of the mountains, and more importantly, from one coast to the other, with the mountains in between. Imagine flat as Kansas, and then suddenly you have something called the Japanese Alps (literally), shoot straight up, and your lines have to cross them. Nature made it hard, not the Japanese.
Pretty much, except that it's the whole country, with the exception of the Kanto plain and some parts of Hokkaido. Imagine the size of California, but a lot more mountains, and everyone living in LA/Orange county. This satellite is for everyone else.
In fact several. The infrastructure in Japan is not conducive to having high speed rural internet access, especially on some of the outlying islands. Japan may be "compact" compared to the US, but remember that 90% of the population lives on 10% of the land. In fact, if you look at it in terms of Okinawa to Hokkaido, it's a huge AREA, much of which is inaccesible except by long tunnels or valleys leading up to mountains, or because of long stretches of ocean. In the US you can mostly just run a landline or throw up a satelite dish at the exchange. In Japan they have to zigzag the cables across insanely steep ravines because the country is so mountainous. I remember, there was a valley near where I lived, that was so remote that they only had 4 hours of full daylight in the SUMMER.
Getting ANY internet access there better than crappy dialup would be wonderful. This satelite is for people way out in the sticks more than anything else, say, the 12.5 million who live outside major urban centers.
Add to that: urban broadband in the cities ALREADY blows this satelite's bandwidth away. I'm talking 40-100mbps connectivity to your HOME in a few select areas. 26mbps even in some semi-rural areas.
Gee, could this be a paper-thinly veiled snipe attack at the author of the recent cisco flaw talk? The oracle people would love to throw their PR spin on this, making these security professionals out to be "those who play ball" and "those who make unreasonable demands based on a 5 day ultimatum".
Guess what, there was no ultimatum in the latest Cisco fiasco. They simply told him he was lying through his teeth, so he told them to go screw themselves and proved that he wasn't lying. I don't see how a time-based ultimatum was involved. They REFUSED to acknowledge the exploit. THAT is why he went public with it. Nice spin oracle, but totaly ignores the most relevant cause for the fiasco: CISCO refused to acknowledge an exploit, NOT CISCO refused to release a timely patch (they did release a patch, later).
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Nobody lives in most of these valleys. And quite a lot of them dead end. Yes they have suspension bridges, but a lot of these ravines have no easy access to the bottom. It's difficult to explain unless you actually see it, but it makes sense for the lay of the land and where they are trying to get the cables to. In fact, in a lot of cases, people don't want to build in the valleys because of the floods, or because the towns are hot spring resorts, and they go where the water comes out, not in the valleys. I've seen plenty of suspension bridges in Japan, but these are places where people are trying to get cables to go UP and OVER, which you don't generally do with a suspension bridge. What happens is they are switchbacking across the face of a steep incline, many times over a ravine that cuts through the middle of it. It's not so much a valley as a dead end, box-ravine at an incline. As for a place being remote, I don't see your point. You can split hairs all you want, but it was about as remote as you can be and still be within 200km of Tokyo. It takes about 5 hours to get there, and it is packed into a ravine in the mountains that dead ends in a blank wall. Use whatever word you want to describe it, but it was remote as hell, and the steep mountains blocked out most of the sunlight. The point I was making is that to get wired service to these people would be extremely difficult and costly, as opposed to a satelite dish up on the top of the ravine, with a single cable down into the town's NTT exchange offering 10mbps. The best these people get is probably 56k. They might have ISDN (128k). BTW, you are a flocinaucinihilipilificator. Remote: difficult to get to. In this case the reason being the steep valley walls. Those same walls block out the sun.....hm.......think about it.
No, you don't understand, they have to zigzag over the ravine, each time gaining elevation to get it up the mountain. The mountains are STEEP, and sometimes it's the only way to get the cables up to the towns and villages on top of the mountains, and more importantly, from one coast to the other, with the mountains in between. Imagine flat as Kansas, and then suddenly you have something called the Japanese Alps (literally), shoot straight up, and your lines have to cross them. Nature made it hard, not the Japanese.
Pretty much, except that it's the whole country, with the exception of the Kanto plain and some parts of Hokkaido. Imagine the size of California, but a lot more mountains, and everyone living in LA/Orange county. This satellite is for everyone else.
In fact several. The infrastructure in Japan is not conducive to having high speed rural internet access, especially on some of the outlying islands. Japan may be "compact" compared to the US, but remember that 90% of the population lives on 10% of the land. In fact, if you look at it in terms of Okinawa to Hokkaido, it's a huge AREA, much of which is inaccesible except by long tunnels or valleys leading up to mountains, or because of long stretches of ocean. In the US you can mostly just run a landline or throw up a satelite dish at the exchange. In Japan they have to zigzag the cables across insanely steep ravines because the country is so mountainous. I remember, there was a valley near where I lived, that was so remote that they only had 4 hours of full daylight in the SUMMER. Getting ANY internet access there better than crappy dialup would be wonderful. This satelite is for people way out in the sticks more than anything else, say, the 12.5 million who live outside major urban centers. Add to that: urban broadband in the cities ALREADY blows this satelite's bandwidth away. I'm talking 40-100mbps connectivity to your HOME in a few select areas. 26mbps even in some semi-rural areas.
Gee, could this be a paper-thinly veiled snipe attack at the author of the recent cisco flaw talk? The oracle people would love to throw their PR spin on this, making these security professionals out to be "those who play ball" and "those who make unreasonable demands based on a 5 day ultimatum".
Guess what, there was no ultimatum in the latest Cisco fiasco. They simply told him he was lying through his teeth, so he told them to go screw themselves and proved that he wasn't lying. I don't see how a time-based ultimatum was involved. They REFUSED to acknowledge the exploit. THAT is why he went public with it. Nice spin oracle, but totaly ignores the most relevant cause for the fiasco: CISCO refused to acknowledge an exploit, NOT CISCO refused to release a timely patch (they did release a patch, later).